Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Photo: Havang(nl) · CC0100% of Beuvry-la-Forêt’s land lies in protected areas. Mapped woodland covers 25% of Beuvry-la-Forêt. Beuvry-la-Forêt has 1 km of waymarked hiking routes. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Throughout this page, the Nord median and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median.
Each figure against the 3,798 compared French towns (communes with an overall grade): the marked bar is the town’s, the line the median. Described, not graded.
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (2,833 to 2,889 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Courchelettes (4.3 km per km²) to La Boixe (0.1 km per km²).
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Courchelettes Nord | 4.3 | 6.5% | 0% | 91 km |
| 2 | Burbure Pas-de-Calais | 3 | 3.7% | 0% | 55 km |
| 3 | Sainte-Anne-d'Auray Morbihan | 2.9 | 12% | 100% | 2.5 km |
| 4 | Le Pouzin Ardèche | 2.5 | 4.6% | 28% | 142 km |
| 5 | L'Aiguillon-la-Presqu'île Vendée | 2.3 | 7.9% | 100% | On it |
| 6 | Pérignat-lès-Sarliève Puy-de-Dôme | 2.2 | 3.7% | 4.6% | 251 km |
| 7 | Vitry-sur-Orne Moselle | 2.2 | 63% | 0% | 313 km |
| 8 | Saint-Jouan-des-Guérets Ille-et-Vilaine | 2 | 5% | 85% | On it |
| 9 | Montbazin Hérault | 2 | 1.9% | 58% | 11 km |
| 10 | Sainghin-en-Mélantois Nord | 1.8 | 6.5% | 0% | 70 km |
| 11 | Bar-sur-Seine Aube | 1.7 | 40% | 0% | 302 km |
| 12 | Beuvry-la-Forêt Nord | 1.7 | 25% | 100% | 87 km |
| 13 | Anzin-Saint-Aubin Pas-de-Calais | 1.7 | 6.2% | 0% | 77 km |
| 14 | Saint-Jean-en-Royans Drôme | 1.7 | 60% | 100% | 177 km |
| 15 | Massieux Ain | 1.6 | 5.1% | 0% | 267 km |
| 16 | Argentat-sur-Dordogne Corrèze | 1.4 | 59% | 2.2% | 199 km |
| 17 | Fraize Vosges | 1.2 | 48% | 100% | 447 km |
| 18 | Saint-Jean-du-Falga Ariège | 1.2 | 3.1% | 2.2% | 117 km |
| 19 | Trélivan Côtes-d'Armor | 1.1 | 18% | 100% | 9.5 km |
| 20 | Rozay-en-Brie Seine-et-Marne | 1.1 | 1.1% | 0.3% | 191 km |
| 21 | Toulenne Gironde | 1.1 | 8.9% | 7.5% | 56 km |
| 22 | Pont-d'Ain Ain | 1 | 22% | 18% | 291 km |
| 23 | L'Étrat Loire | 1 | 19% | 0% | 215 km |
| 24 | Colombier-Saugnieu Rhône | 1 | 2.7% | 0% | 252 km |
| 25 | Ambronay Ain | 1 | 28% | 1.3% | 286 km |
| 26 | Chavanay Loire | 0.8 | 21% | 99% | 213 km |
| 27 | Saint-Clément Yonne | 0.8 | 1.9% | 0% | 248 km |
| 28 | Noailles Oise | 0.8 | 46% | 0% | 101 km |
| 29 | Bourg-Argental Loire | 0.8 | 42% | 100% | 197 km |
| 30 | Étaules Charente-Maritime | 0.7 | 9.6% | 39% | On it |
| 31 | Langogne Lozère | 0.7 | 23% | 0.1% | 131 km |
| 32 | Fère-en-Tardenois Aisne | 0.7 | 40% | 0% | 171 km |
| 33 | Seiches-sur-le-Loir Maine-et-Loire | 0.6 | 31% | 0% | 137 km |
| 34 | Aoste Isère | 0.6 | 13% | 4.6% | 245 km |
| 35 | Margaux-Cantenac Gironde | 0.4 | 18% | 100% | On it |
| 36 | Vendays-Montalivet Gironde | 0.3 | 74% | 100% | On it |
| 37 | Lafrançaise Tarn-et-Garonne | 0.3 | 19% | 0.8% | 175 km |
| 38 | Miremont Haute-Garonne | 0.2 | 7.8% | 0.2% | 139 km |
| 39 | Thiviers Dordogne | 0.2 | 27% | 0.1% | 127 km |
| 40 | Précigné Sarthe | 0.1 | 23% | 0% | 123 km |
| 41 | La Boixe Charente | 0.1 | 10% | 23% | 78 km |
Tap a number to zoom to a park or wood. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is the commune’s boundary.
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Forêt domaniale de Marchiennes leads, at 717 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Designations overlap (a regional park can hold a Natura 2000 site), so the rows don’t add up; the first counts each piece of land once.
100% of Beuvry-la-Forêt’s land is protected, more than in 95% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Nord has 0%. A regional nature park is a charter between communes to look after a landscape: farming, building and hunting go on inside it.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Paths, bridleways, steps and tracks open on foot, and waymarked hiking routes, mapped on OpenStreetMap inside the commune; woods are mapped forest and woodland, private woods included.
That is more than in 51% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 70% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them. Every home in Beuvry-la-Forêt is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
GR 121 passes within 2 km of Beuvry-la-Forêt.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Cappelle-En-Pev, 8.5 km away, and the daylight at the town’s latitude. Outlined months have long days, highs of 15 to 30 °C and little rain for the place.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daylight (h) | 8.5 | 10.0 | 11.7 | 13.7 | 15.4 | 16.4 | 16.0 | 14.5 | 12.5 | 10.6 | 8.9 | 8.0 |
| High (°C) | 6 | 8 | 11 | 16 | 19 | 22 | 24 | 24 | 21 | 16 | 10 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 60 | 50 | 53 | 41 | 57 | 66 | 70 | 72 | 58 | 63 | 73 | 75 |
April is the driest month (41 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 24 °C). 75 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 44 nights a year. The climate in Beuvry-la-Forêt →
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beuvry-la-Forêt | 100% | 25% | 1.7 |
| Landas 2,518 · 2.3 km | 100% | 2.9% | 0.4 |
| Orchies 8,396 · 3.1 km | 0.7% | 1.7% | 1.9 |
| Marchiennes 4,507 · 4.6 km | 100% | 38% | 1.4 |
| Coutiches 3,436 · 5.8 km | 100% | 5.4% | 0.5 |
| Nomain 2,651 · 5.8 km | 0% | 2% | 0.4 |
| Flines-lez-Raches 5,745 · 7.5 km | 100% | 21% | 0.6 |
Marchiennes is more wooded.
Yes: Beuvry-la-Forêt lies in Scarpe-Escaut Regional Nature Park (100% of the commune).
OpenStreetMap maps 22 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.7 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 1 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
25% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
No: the coast is 87 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
April to July and September: long days, mild highs and little rain, from Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at the nearest suitable station.
TownRatings grades the outdoors in the U.S. and the UK; the French figures are new and not graded yet. This page sets each one beside the median compared French town instead.
Sources: INPN / PatriNat (protected areas 2026, Natura 2000 2024) · © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL (paths, hiking routes, woods, coast, gardens) · INSEE, Filosofi 2021 200 m grid (residents) · IGN Admin Express (boundaries) · Météo-France normals 1991–2020 · Medians and percentiles: TownRatings, over compared French towns, updated November 9, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
Contains public sector information under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab): INSEE, DGFiP, the Interior Ministry’s statistics service (SSMSI), the Ministry of Education (DEPP), the Health Ministry’s statistics service (DREES) and the Housing Ministry (Carte des loyers). Commune boundaries: IGN Admin Express.